Michael Sheen Quotes

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

I'm not real. I'm theatre.

One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

Actors are con men and con men are actors.

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

I love acting, and I really am a group singer, and I'm not really a soloist.

As an actor, I feel one should use his look to trick people.

I like to do a wide variety of things, and acting, particularly in the theatre, has given me that opportunity.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.

All the world's a stage.

When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."

I discovered I loved acting at a Summer Camp. That's when I really realised that I enjoyed it and that I wanted to try it.

Come on, I know bad acting when I hear it.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Being on stage was all about the palpable energy of a rapt audience hopefully buying into a life onstage. The immediate connection with the audience was the best part for me. The camera is not as fun, but your work is preserved forever. There's immortality to it.